Most turnover checklists you’ll find online were written for somewhere else. They’ll tell you to watch for mildew and humidity damage — real problems in a lot of markets, and largely not yours. Denver is dry, high, and has four genuinely different seasons, and that changes both what wears out and what guests complain about.
Here’s the version that matches the properties we actually clean.
The supplies guests run out of first
In rough order of how often we find them empty mid-stay:
- Toilet paper — always first, always by a wide margin. Two spare rolls visible in each bathroom, not stored in a cupboard the guest has to find.
- Paper towels — one on the holder, two spare.
- Dish soap and dishwasher pods — guests cook more in Denver than in resort markets, because a lot of stays here are work trips and family visits rather than restaurant weekends.
- Hand soap — refilled, not replaced with a half-empty bottle from another property.
- Trash bags — under the sink, in the size that fits your bin. The wrong size is the same as none.
- Coffee — the single highest-goodwill item per dollar on this list.
Stock for a full booking plus one, not for the exact night count. The cost of over-stocking is pennies; the cost of a guest messaging you at 9pm about toilet paper is a review.
The Colorado-specific ones
These don’t appear on generic checklists and they matter here:
- Lip balm and a note about hydration. Denver sits at 5,280 feet with very low humidity. Guests from sea level arrive dry, headachy, and often don’t connect it to the altitude. This is the cheapest five-star gesture available to you.
- A humidifier in the main bedroom, especially in winter. Dry-air nosebleeds and sore throats are a genuinely common complaint in Denver listings, and one appliance removes the whole category.
- Ice melt and a decent doormat, October through April. Guests will track in snow, grit and de-icer regardless — the mat decides whether it stays in the entryway or ends up on your floors.
- Extra blankets, visibly available. Overnight temperature swings here are large even in summer. A guest who is cold at 2am and can’t find a blanket writes about it.
- A fan or working AC in summer, and make sure guests know where the controls are. Late summer heat plus wildfire-smoke days means windows-open is not always an option.
The turnover checklist itself
Every single turnover, no exceptions:
- All beds stripped and remade with fresh linen, hotel-style
- All bathrooms: toilet, shower, sink, mirror, floor
- Fresh towels — bath, hand and face — one set per guest
- Kitchen counters cleared and wiped
- Fridge emptied of leftovers and wiped inside
- Microwave wiped inside
- Dishwasher run and emptied
- All trash and recycling out, including bathroom bins
- Floors vacuumed, hard floors mopped
- Entryway and doormat cleared — the highest-traffic square metre in the property
- Every consumable on the list above restocked to full
- Final walkthrough in reverse, from the front door backwards
Seasonal additions:
- Winter: entryway and mudroom deep-cleaned (salt and grit), humidifier filled and running, extra blankets out and visible, ice melt topped up by the door.
- Spring: window tracks and sills — this is when Denver’s dust and pollen show up, and it’s what makes photos look hazy.
- Summer: patio and outdoor furniture wiped, AC filter checked, fans dusted before first use.
- Autumn: heating tested before the first cold snap, leaves cleared from the entry path.
How to stop thinking about it
The checklist above works. Running it yourself every week does not scale past about two properties.
Two things fix that permanently. First, keep a par level for every consumable — a fixed number of each item that lives in the property, restocked to that number on every visit regardless of how much was used. No counting, no judgment call, no running out.
Second, put restocking in the hands of whoever is already standing in the property. The person doing the turnover is the only one who can see what’s actually low, and they’re there anyway.
That’s how we run it: every clean includes a restock check against par, and you get a photo report showing the property guest-ready. You stop tracking supplies entirely, because someone already is.
Get a quote for your property — we cover Denver, Aurora, Arvada, Englewood, Centennial, Parker and Castle Rock. Or see what a report looks like.